Hi :)

I’ve been playing around with a pi 4 for a few months now, but I want a dedicated home server now, since I want my pi to run HomeAssistantOS.

I’m looking for something that can store documents and photos (paperless and immich) and maybe run a small program like Ad guard. At first I just want to hookup an old SSD (250GB) and a HHD (1TB), but maybe I will buy a second one for RAID in the future. Power consumption at idle is really important for me (energy prices in Germany are really high).

As a beginner I find it very hard to find the right hardware, because everyone is recommending different things. (Slim-Clients, Intel Nuc, Raspberry Pi, Synology NAS).

I hope someone can recommend me something that will work for me.

  • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Efficiency? Worse. Power? Way more.

    Big thing is going from usb 3.0 or really weak microsd to sata ssd or especially m.2 nvme.

    Pi4 has a72s which are weak, like clock for clock on par with sandylake or even nehalem, and they aren’t clocked near as high.

    Pi5 is closer to broadwell, maybe Sky-lake, which is starting to hit tolerable performance.